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Lead Engineer - Front End Platform & Design System

Xero106 open roles

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AU: Melbourne: (260 Burwood Rd)
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Your applicationOpen nowLead Engineer - Front End Platform & Design SystemXero · AU: Melbourne: (260 Burwood Rd)

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13.5% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Xero postings stay open a median of 24 days.

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This job: posted 53 days ago

Xero median: 24 days open

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The role and it’s impact

You'll help shape the technical direction of our Front End Platform, working across multiple teams to deliver the shared tools, systems and standards that make front end development at Xero faster, safer and more consistent. This is a role for someone who enjoys tackling open-ended, multi-team problems, and who can move comfortably between hands-on technical work and broader strategic influence.

You'll build deep relationships across engineering, product and design, breaking down silos and helping teams reach the best outcome regardless of level or title. You'll guide technical design, identify the technical gaps holding teams back, and champion modern front end practices, all while coaching engineers toward their next level.

The team and how how they connect

The Front End Platform team builds and maintains the shared foundations, from component libraries and design systems to developer tooling, that product engineering teams across Xero rely on daily.

We work in close partnership with design, product engineering and infrastructure teams to keep what we build genuinely useful and well adopted. It's a team that thinks in multi-year horizons while staying grounded in the everyday realities of the teams we support.

Initially, you will focus on

- Leading the technical direction of Xero’s front end

- Guiding a modern front end stack (React, TypeScript, and associated tooling) across multiple teams

- Influencing CI/CD and delivery pipeline improvements at a platform level

- Shaping the longer term roadmap for front end performance, accessibility and developer experience

- Leveraging Harness Engineering to moderise legacy front end pages and components

Where and how you can work

This role can be either hybrid or fully remote anywhere across the East Coast of Australia.

For those that are looking for a hybrid role, we have beautiful offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. We come together in the office for connection, collaboration and our regular boost days, with flexibility to work from home the rest of the time.

Here are some of the things we're looking for, for this role

- Deep expertise in front end engineering, with the ability to pick up new languages and tools as needed

- Proven experience and genuine interest in large scale shared platforms and developer experience

- Solid grounding in CI/CD concepts, automated testing and TDD, and enjoy helping others build good habits around them

- Skilled at designing secure, scalable and maintainable systems, including distributed architectures

- You'll bring a track record of influencing roadmaps and technical direction across multiple teams, not just your own

- Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on problem solving when a team needs it

- Experience coaching and mentoring engineers, with a genuine interest in helping others grow toward senior roles

- A collaborative approach to disagreement, able to work through different viewpoints to reach the best outcome for the wider team

- A track record of using AI tools and principles to work more efficiently and solve problems within a development team

Apply even if your experience isn't a perfect match! At Xero, we hire based on your skills, passion, and the unique perspective you can bring to enhance our culture and team.

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